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Accenture
Acer
Adobe Systems
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering
Alliance Data Systems

Sept. 14

Virgin Media
Viewsonic
Verisign
Verifone Holdings
Veeco Instruments

A 2 or 4 degree centigrade increase in average global temperature sounds small, but it will have enormous impacts on the earth?s climate and life in general.

This page has been updated to include an interactive map from the UK?s Met Office that illustrates this. Also added are more charts and graphs and videos looking at past emissions and temperatures, projected future changes, and the impact to the arctic.

Read full article: Climate Change and Global Warming Introduction

Lam Research
L-1 Identity Solutions
Kingston Technology Company
Key
Jds Uniphase

Church rebuffs military concerns on Quran burning

China Mobile
Cisco Systems
Cognizant Tech. Solutions
Comcast
Commscope

Sept. 28

Oracle
Openwave Systems
On Semiconductor
Nvidia
Nuance Communications

Pharmaceutical companies have long been criticized for their effects on developing countries. For example, they have lobbied hard against poorer countries producing or using generic drugs, even in emergency situations, which is legitimate under WTO rules.

For many years, they have also been criticized for donating drugs that are inappropriate or out of date. While a lot of drug donation is certainly welcome, and often done out of good will, there are often financial incentives to do so as well (tax breaks, cheaper than destroying drugs, etc).

It also seems that drug testing and trial results are easy to distort to the general public to give a greater sense of success than might be the case.

Updates to this page go into the above further.

Read full article: Pharmaceutical Corporations and Medical Research

Quest Software
Quantum
Qlogic .
Progress Software
Planar Systems

Sept. 14

Nintendo
Nokia
Nvidia
Oracle
Powerchip Semiconductor

For years, many have argued that our current economic system does not fully capture the cost of the environment. The price signal, for example, should be an indicator of resource scarcity or other environmental concerns, but often does not capture the full costs. (Current climate change is perhaps a clear indication of this.)

As a result, we continue efficiently producing products and services that have a negative impact on the environment in some way (which is inefficient, on the whole, in the long run).

For those who fear excessive government regulation, a truer accounting of such costs could allow markets to more naturally price goods and services, and highlight seemingly efficient companies and industries as inefficient, forcing change through markets, rather than regulation, which market proponents always fear. (The irony may be that to see such a change in our economic systems may require political leadership by governments and citizens ? although that is how national and global market systems came into being in the first place.)

The biodiversity page has been updated to explain this further.

Read full article: Why Is Biodiversity Important? Who Cares?

Hewlett Packard Co
Heartland Payment Systems
Google
Google
Formfactor

In trading on Wednesday, Semiconductor Equipment & Materials shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1. 1%.

On Semiconductor
Nvidia
Nuance Communications
Novellus Systems
Novell

Healthcare IT has many players. We look at which ones provide some payback for investors.

Veeco Instruments
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates
United Online
Unisys
Triquint Semiconductor

Aeropostale has found a way to stand out to fickle teenagers and a growing base of even younger youth.

Factset Research Systems
F5 Networks
Epicor Software
Emulex
Ems Technologies

In May, less than a month after the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a key milestone was achieved with little notice: Total U.S. supplies of petroleum and products refined from it (including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) surpassed 1.8 billion barrels, reaching the highest level in the last 20 years. Since then the total has continued to edge upward, hitting 1.87 billion barrels in the week ended August 27, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Fei Company
Fairchild Semiconductor International
Fair Isaac
Factset Research Systems
F5 Networks

Hewlett-Packard sued former CEO Mark Hurd on Tuesday to prevent him from joining rival Oracle.

Informatica
Infocus
Ims Health
Imation .
Ikon Office Solutions

Pakistan to charge 3 over failed Times Square bomb

Nanya Technology
Nii Holdings
Nikon
Nintendo
Nokia

Term of the Day for Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Nikon
Nintendo
Nokia
Nvidia
Oracle

Every year tons of albums street on the same Tuesday in September. We asked why, and why not.

High Tech Computer
Hon Hai Precision Ind.
Hynix Semiconductor
Infosys Technologies
International Business Machines

President Obama’s latest round of job-bolstering proposals boasts something for everyone: corporate tax breaks for conservatives and spending on roads and railways for liberals. Yet he’s having a hard time getting everyone on board.

Apple Computer
Applied Materials
Arian Semiconductor Equipment
Arrow Electronics
Asml Holding

The 10 year treasury is getting more attention than these telecom stocks with superior yields.

Intuit
Intersections
International Rectifier
International Game Technology
International Business Machines (ibm)

Learn how these two statistics can give you an edge in trading options.

Qualcomm
Quanta Computer
Research In Motion
Rogers Communications
Saic

On Semiconductor
Nvidia
Nuance Communications
Novellus Systems
Novell